php - access denied problems with external executable

[Yiorgos]

Hi and happy new year to everyone in this forum.

I have a problem in running an external executable .exe or .bat. For example using the following php code:

$abc=system("test.bat 2>&1");
printf ("TEST1:");
printf ($abc);
$abc=system("whoami 2>&1");
printf ("TEST2:");
printf ($abc);

with test.bat in the current directory and the following batch code:

echo "Hello WOrld!"print"Hello WOrld!!!!"

I get the following response:

TEST1:servername\iwam_plesk(default) TEST2:servername\iwam_plesk(default)

i.e. it seems that test.bat is ignored (!)

I think it is a permissions issue, but I cannot locate the root of the problem.

The user iwam_plesk(default) has execution rights in both the batch file and the cmd.exe.

I am using windows 2008 server and plesk 10.4.4.

Any advice would be appreciated.